Electric grinder



May 17, 1932. c. H. BEACH 1,359,063

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PATENT. OFFICE rmEc'rnIc GRINDER Application filed May 1, 1929. Serial No. 359,483.

My invention relates to improvements in electric grinders and other portable tools.

Such tools, when in use,. are usually mounted on lathes, planers, shapers or other machine tools and are clamped thereto by a bolt, the nut on which, when tightened, often distorts the frame or base of the portable tool. In the case of an electric grinder, for example, the spindle carrying the grinding wheel is. very accurately mounted in ball bearings and may rotate from 3500 to 35000 R. P. M. or more and is relied on for exceedingly accurate work, the grindin wheel making a cut as fine as a fraction 0 a thousandth of an inch. The distortion of the base referred to is often enough to disturb the adjustment of the spindle andthus destroy the precision of the work.

One object of my invention is to provide an improved mounting for a precision tool of this character whereby the stresses applied to the clamping bolt or mountin post are not communicated to the frame 0 the portable tool, thereby avoiding the distortion referred to.

Considerable difliculty is encountered also in properly oiling a spindle running at such excessive speeds and in various positions other than horizontal, the bearings overheating readily and the oil leaking out when the spindle is tilted, resulting in obvious difliculties. v

Another object of my invention is to provide improved means for oiling the spindle whereby it may operate at the required high speeds without overheating, and whereby it may operate satisfactorily and for long periods of time in inclined as well as in horizontal positions with a minimum quantity of oil. Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the description herein-after given.

In the accompanying drawings, in which a commercial embodiment of the invention is illustrated, a

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a portable electric grinder; i

Fig. 2 isa front elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation;

Fig. 4 is a bottom view;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged section on the line 55 of Fig. 2; v

Fig. 6 is a perspectiveview of a lock bush- Fig. 7 is an elevation ofa felt ring;

Fig. 8 is an elevation of a cupped washer;

Fig. 9 is a side view of a thrust washer;

Fig. 10 is a front view thereof; and

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary section of a detail taken on line 11-11 of Fig. 1.

The grinder comprises a suitable base or frame 10 having an electric motor 11 mounted thereon about a pivotal support 12 and having a cylindrical housing 13 or quill removably secured to the other end. Said housing encloses a rotatable spindle li (see Fig. 5) mounted in ball bearings, as hereinafter explained, and having a pulley 15 mounted on one end thereof (see Figs. 1 and 2) driven by a pulley 16 on the armature shaft of the motor by means of a belt 17.

The base, which in the position shown in the drawings issub'stantially horizontal, has a vertical opening therein of circular cross section within which fits a mounting post or tool post 18 about which the grinder frame may be rotated and to which it may be frictionally clamped by means of a lock bushing 19 held in place by a stud 20. The inner end of the lock bushing is curved to fit the cylindrical surface of the mounting post 18 as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and serves to hold the grinder frame in any position of adjustment, either vertically or angularly on said post 18.

Said mounting post has a longitudinal opening therethrough in which is received a T bolt 21 having a head 22 at the bottom which may be drawn upwardly by anut 23 turning against a washer 24: on the top of the mounting post 18 to clamp said post firmly in place on a lathe, planer or shaper, etc., the lower end of the mounting post having an. enlarged head 25 which, with the head 22 of the T bolt, comprise the clamping members. It will be seen that stresses appliedto the mounting post 18 by tightening the nut 23 excessively will not be transmitted to the frame 10 and therefore the latter will 'not be distorted nor will the spindle 14 be affected 'of oil is all ,intot plied to the raceways om said conical or- .tions by means of washers 28 of absor ent material having a capillary attraction, such as felt, for example. In Fig. 7 one of these washers is shown, ashaving a plurality of inward radial extensions 29 which latter contact with'the conical surfaces 26. One of these felt washers is arranged near each end of the housing 13 in contact with a cylinder .30 of similar material such as felt. An oil opening is provided in the upper art of the housing 13 and is normally closed y a small screw 31 as shown inFig. 11, whereby oil may be introduced through said opening in sufiicient quantities to saturate the felt cylinder, the oil also passing through the felt washers 28 in each end to the tapering surfaces as previously e?lained. A very small amount t at is necessary to properly oil the bearings, and this. amount is determined by the area of theradial extension 29 in contact with said conical surfaces. Such small amount of oil as is conveyed to saidconical surfaces works its way alon the latter, through centrifugal force, fin 'n its way e inner raceway and eventua ly to the outer raceway. In fact, when the spindle is rotating athigh velocity, the chamber adjacent saidball bearings is apparently filled with a .fine oily mist although the actual amount of oil used by the bearings is so slight as to require the further addition of only a small amount of oil to the felt cylinder 30' at long intervals of time, for example, many The felt washers 28 are held against the end of the felt cylinder by cupped metal washers 32 (see Fig. 8). Immediately beyond the ball bearing is a ring 33 of special oonfiguration,'held in place by a pulley acing ring 34,the latter being surrounde by a cap 35 having screw threaded engagement with the end of the housing 13, as shown at V the left hand endof said housing in Fig. 5

vtween sai members 33, 34 and 35,

for exam 1e. A clearance is. provided heproviding open communication between the all bearhug chamber and the outer. airby a'circuitous passageway which prevents the escape of any material quantity of oil, regardless of whether the grinder, is mounted with the spindle in horizontal, inclined or vertical position.,, I j

"Atthe right hand end is a similar arrangement except that a slightly different collar 36 surrounds the reduced end of the'shaft Oil is supand a thrust washer 37, of special configuration (see Figs. 9 and 10) is located between the ball bearing raceways and the screw threaded cap 35 to take up the thrust, due to elongation of the parts caused by temperature changes.

A suitable grinding wheel 38 may be mounted on the reduced end of the shaft in the usual manner, adapted for external grinding, or a tapering spindle may be em ployed with a small grinding wheel at the end suitable for internal grinding. To adapt the grinder readily to different classes of service, a number of different cylindrical housings 13 or quills may be furnished with the inder which are interchangeable, and may e readily mounted in place by loosening screws 39 which pass throu h the clamps 40 shown in Figs. 1 and 2, slidlng out one quill, slidingin another and clamping the latter in place. ,A' locating pin 41 (see Fig. 4) on each quill is received within a recess in-the base, thus insuring alignment of the pulleys and the location of the oil hole at the top of the quill.

The grinding wheel 33 may be provided with a suitable guard 42, if desired.

In order to maintain the belt tension, a coiled spring 43 is provided which surrounds the shaft 12, with its ends bearing against part of the web of the frame casting 10 and its middle portion, which is in the form of a loop, bearing against the outside of the motor.

as shown in Figs. 3 'nd 4. This maintains the belt tension witho t the necessity of manual adjustment such as has been used heretofore in devices of this character.

What I claim is: I i

1. A portable tool having a cylindrical housing, a cylindrical member of fibrous material within the same, ball bearing raceways at opposite ends of said housing, aspindle mounted in said ball bearing raceways and having a reverse taper adjacent each raceway and a washer of fibrous mterial in contact with said fiber cylinder and also in contact with said reverse taper portions to supply oil to said .ball bearing raceways.

2. In a portable grinder, a cylindrical housing, a ball bearing racewa in each end thereof, a spindle supported y said raceways, screw threaded caps holding said raceways in place, a felt tube fitting the inside of said housing between said raceways, a felt .washer at each end of said felt tube and raceway, a felt ring in contact with said washer, meansfor supplying oil to said felt ring, a spindle having a reduced end supported in said raceway, a reverse taper be-- tween said spindle and said reduced end,

said felt washer having inward extensions engaging said reverse taper, a screw threaded cap surrounding the reduced end of sald spindle and engaging the end ofsaid hous ing, a thrust washer between said ball bearing raceway and said screw threaded cap and two additional rings within said cap each surrounding said reduced extension and spaced from each other and from said cap to provide a circuitous passageway.

4. A spindle assembly comprising a housing, an anti-friction bearing adjacent each end thereof, a rotatable spindle in said housing mounted in said bearings, said spindle having cone shaped portions one disposed inwardly of each of said bearings, said housing having an oil opening, and fibrous means within said housing contacting with said cone shaped portions for conveying oil' from said opening to said cone shaped portions of said spindle for delivery by said portions to the adjacent bearing.

5. A spindle assembly comprising a housing, a pair of anti-friction bearings in said housing, a spindle mounted in said bearings,

said spindle having frusto-conical portions one adjacent each of said bearings to cause oil to move along the surface thereof to the respective bearing, fibrous means within said housing spaced from said spindle, said housing having one or more oil openings therein through which oil can be supplied to said fibrous means, and a pair of members each contacting with said fibrous means and with one of said portions of said spindle for conveying oil. from said fibrous means to said portions.

6. A spindle assembly comprising a housing, a pair of anti-friction hearings in said housing, a spindle mounted in said bearings, said spindle having flaring portions one adjacent each of said bearings to cause oil to move along the surface thereof to the respective bearing, fibrous means within said housing spaced from said spindle, said housing havingone or more oil openings therein through which oil can be supplied to said fibrous means, and a pair of fibrous washers surrounding said spindle in contact with said fibrous means and havin radial projections contacting with said portlons of said spindle for conveying oil from said fibrous means to said portions.

In testimony whereof, I have subscribed myname.

' Y CHESTER H. BEACH.. 

